“I can retain neither respect nor affection for government which has been moving from wrong to wrong in order to defend its immorality”

“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”

“An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self sustained.”

“A person who believes in fighting and does not regard it as violence, though it is violence, is here being asked to kill.”

“My difficulties lay deeper. It was more than I could believe that Jesus was the only incarnate son of God, and that only he who believed in him would have everlasting life. If God could have sons, all of us were His sons. If Jesus was like God, or God Himself, then all men were like God and could be God Himself. My reason was not ready to believe literally that Jesus by his death and by his blood redeemed the sins of the world. Metaphorically there might be some truth in it. Again, according to Christianity only human beings had souls, and not other living beings, for whom death meant complete extinction; while I held a contrary belief. I could accept Jesus as a martyr, an embodiment of sacrifice, and a divine teacher, but not as the most perfect man ever born. His death on the Cross was a great example to the world, but that there was anything like a mysterious or miraculous virtue in it my heart could not accept. The pious lives of Christians did not give me anything that the lives of men of other faiths had failed to give. I had seen in other lives just the same reformation that I had heard of among Christians. Philosophically there was nothing extraordinary in Christian principles. From the point of view of sacrifice, it seemed to me that the Hindus greatly surpassed the Christians. It was impossible for me to regard Christianity as a perfect religion or the greatest of all religions.”

“Every seeker has, at one time or another, to pass through a conflict of duties, a heart-churning.”

“All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul.”

“Sacrifice is joy.”

“That we should obey laws whether good or bad is a new-fangled notion. There was no such thing in former days. The people disregarded those laws they did not like and suffered the penalties for their breach.”

“A true Brahmachari will not even dream of satisfying the fleshly appetite”

“Therefore the Gita is not for those who have no faith. The author makes Krishna say: ‘Do not entrust this treasure to him who is without sacrifice, without devotion, without the desire for this teaching and who denies Me. On”

“But the fact that I had learnt to be tolerant to other religions did not mean that I had any living faith in God.”

“Breach of promise is a base surrender of truth”

“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”

“I hold that the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man.”